Kevin Cyr, a Brooklyn-based designer and artist, opened his new mobility and shelter-themed exhibition, 'Home In The Weeds', this last month at <a href="http://www.941geary.com/shows/kevin-cyr">941 Geary in San Francisco.</a> Cyr is the artist who designed and built the fantastic human-powered campers, <a href="http://www.kevincyr.net/index.php?/ongoing/camper-kart/" target="_blank">Camper Kart</a> and <a href="http://inhabitat.com/camper-bike-pedal-powered-rv-for-one/">Camper Bike</a>, as a way to explore human powered movement and shelter with a vintage aesthetic. His new project is a collection of shelters for a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/keg-apartments-reinvision-liquid-container-trucks-as-mobile-houses/">future worst-case scenario</a> and includes a bike-pulled trailer, a tent with wainscoting, a shelter from <a href="http://inhabitat.com/incredible-rooftop-treehouse-in-amsterdam-made-from-fruit-veggie-crates/">discarded materials</a> and a fallout foxhole shelter built into the ground.

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Home in the Weeds is Cyr's personal reaction to the fragility of our current society and the feeling of imminent doom.

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Natural disasters, job loss, injury or other misfortune have the potential to drastically transform our lives, so Cyr wanted to explore how shelter can provide a peace of mind in these turbulent times.

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In this solo exhibition, Cyr built or transformed recycled, reclaimed and vintage materials into safe haven in a future worst-case scenario and he also explores optimistic notions of home, self-preservation, mobility, concealment and protectionism.

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The first shelter is a tag-along camper towed by an old Raleigh 3-speed bike, reminiscent of his earlier camper/bike projects.

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Next is a transportable, yet immobile canvas tent that conceals a built-out room with wood flooring, wainscoting walls and a wood burning stove.

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Thirdly is a rustic shack built from found materials, conceived as an urban fort and equipped with a CB radio for communication with allies, peep holes for scanning the surroundings and weapons for a last resort.

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Finally, foxhole, underground shelter, stocked with survival necessities for a worst case scenario, is a site-specific installation that Cyr built into an oil pit used by the former smog shop occupant.

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Cyr also created a series of drawings, paintings, silkscreen editions and photographs of the shelters, people who might inhabitat them and objects that are included in the installation.

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The drawings of the shelters emphasize the design of each piece, while paintings of the objects speak to the vintage aesthetic.

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The supporting material fills in the details of the story behind the shelter and the characters who would live there.

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The 'Shanty Chateau' is made from found and discarded material.

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A photo with the front removed shows all the secret activity going on inside.

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Home In the Weeds is on display at 941 Geary until June 4th, 2011.

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Home In The Weeds-Kevin Cyr

Kevin Cyr, a Brooklyn-based designer and artist, opened his new mobility and shelter-themed exhibition, 'Home In The Weeds', this last month at 941 Geary in San Francisco. Cyr is the artist who designed and built the fantastic human-powered campers, Camper Kart and Camper Bike, as a way to explore human powered movement and shelter with a vintage aesthetic. His new project is a collection of shelters for a future worst-case scenario and includes a bike-pulled trailer, a tent with wainscoting, a shelter from discarded materials and a fallout foxhole shelter built into the ground.